List of cultural heritage North West and West Region delicacy Achu has become a nationwide dish that will soon be registered in an international list of cultural heritage in the likes of Ndole and others before it.
ACHU is a delicacy of the people from the North West Region of Cameroon together with the West Region. It is a combination of pounded coco yam and yellow soup that has such a particular taste, such that not only people from the above mentioned region eat it, but it has been adopted by almost the whole country. Lately, the minister of culture Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Kpwatt has proceeded in the installation of a committee that has to study the necessary conditions and tender an application to the United Nation Education Cultural and Scientific Organization UNESCO, for a possible adoption of Achu in the list of its cultural heritage. It is a traditional dish that represents one of the best culinary register of the people of the North West and Western region of Cameroon.
The idea of registering ACHU in the UNESCO cultural list is the Brain child of the Bafut fun His Royal Highness Abumbi II who made the request from the minister of culture. Achu seems to have originated from Bafut. So he diploid his representative Gerad Chenwi Tanda to the Minister of culture so that the needful could be done for one of the Bafut cultural heritage to be valorized. The North West Region is one of the regions in Cameroon that is noted for its very rich cultural heritage and that Cameroon is very proud of.
HRH Fun Abumbi II was very delight to know that Minister Bidoung Kpwatt could so delightfully adopt his idea of registering this Bafut delicacy in an international register. Also the Majesty’s representative Mr Gerald Chenwi expressed much happiness that Achu has been indiscriminately adopted in the whole nation and could be found in almost all parties and festivities. He explained that it is more palatable when it is accompanied by red wine or palm wine like in the village.
Peter TAMBE
